OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Antigone
If time can teach, I need not to be told.
Oedipus
Say, prithee, if thou knowest, where we are.
Antigone
Athens I recognise, but not the spot.
Oedipus
That much we heard from every wayfarer.
Antigone
Shall I go on and ask about the place?
Oedipus
Yes, daughter, if it be inhabited.
Antigone
Sure there are habitations; but no need
To leave thee; yonder is a man hard by.
Oedipus
What, moving hitherward and on his way?
Antigone
Say rather, here already. Ask him straight
The needful questions, for the man is here.
Enter Stranger.
Oedipus
O stranger, as I learn from her whose eyes
Must serve both her and me, that thou art here
On timely quest, and so canst solve our doubts—
Stranger
First quit that seat, then question me at large;
The spot thou treadest on is holy ground.
Oedipus
What is the site, to what god dedicate?
